A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINA little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Romance is everything.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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